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As mentioned in the previous section, an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) contains all of the things you need to develop, compile, link, and debug your programs. So let’s install one.

The obvious question is, “which one?”. Keep in mind that you can install multiple IDEs, so there is no “wrong decision” here. During the course of these tutorials, we will be showing you some of the nice features of your IDE, such as how to do integrated debugging. All of our examples will be done using both Microsoft’s Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition, and Code::Blocks. Thus we highly recommend you pick one of these.

However, if you would like to try your hand at another compiler, you are free to do so. The concepts we show you will work for any IDE — however, different IDE’s use different keymappings and different setups, and you may have to do a bit of searching to fin